SBIR Phase I: A Cloud-Enabled Digital Art Service for User-Generated Music

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目将确定云数字艺术服务的技术和商业可行性，以促进用户生成音乐的免费和全球交换。最近数字技术的融合极大地改变了音乐的创作、发行、消费和商业化方式。现在有机会在生产者和消费者之间直接促进全球、开放和自由的音乐交流。云计算以一种高度可伸缩、功能强大且经济高效的方式提供了促进这种交换的能力。云计算还支持基于云的音乐消费方法，从而消除了用户在文件管理、可用性和备份方面的负担。第一阶段的研究将确定服务的技术和商业可行性，通过使用具像状态传输（Representational State Transfer， REST）架构开发完全支持云的基础设施，并公开启动用于收集和分析经验数据的服务，来解决这个机会。这个项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是对媒体驱动的云计算应用程序部署的健壮性和成本效率的更大的技术理解，以及对当前音乐市场和音乐消费方式的潜在极端破坏。提议的服务最初将通过联盟营销模式实现商业化，促进整个联盟领域的商业发展。如果成功，该项目最终将为消费者提供免费的云音乐，为制作人提供免费的品牌营销渠道，为附属公司提供扩大的市场，为社会提供民主化的音乐。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will determine the technical and commercial feasibility of a cloud-enabled digital art service that facilitates a free and global exchange of user-generated music. A recent convergence of digital technology has dramatically changed the way music is created, distributed, consumed, and commercialized. An opportunity now exists to facilitate a global, open, and free musical exchange directly between producer and consumer. Cloud computing offers the ability to facilitate this exchange in a highly scalable, capable, and cost efficient manner. Cloud computing also enables a cloud-based music consumption methodology which eliminates the consumer burdens of file management, availability, and backup. Phase I research will determine the technical and commercial feasibility of a service that addresses this opportunity by developing a fully cloud-enabled infrastructure using a Representational State Transfer (REST) architecture and publicly launching the service for the collection and analysis of empirical data. The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is the greater technological understanding of the robustness and cost efficiencies of media-driven, cloud computing application deployments, and a potentially extreme disruption of current music markets and music consumption methods. The proposed service will initially be commercialized through an affiliate marketing model fostering commerce throughout the affiliate sphere. If successful, the project would ultimately provide: consumers with free cloud-based music, producers with a free outlet to market brands, affiliates with expanded markets, and society with democratized music.